Improvement in spike-drawers



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S. HURT AND J. DOUGLASS, OF PBENTIGE, ILLINOIS.

I M PROVEM ENT IN SPIKE-URAWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,911, dated September11', 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL HURT and JOHN DOUGLASS, of Prentice, in thecounty of Morgan and State ot1 Illinois, have invented a new andImproved Spike-Drawer; and we do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation of our invention. Fig. 2 is a section takenon the line :c x, Fig. l, looking in the direction of the arrows Z Z.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

Our invention consists in constructing a sl'iikedrawing implement,'witha joint in such manner that the said implement can be used in either anextended position, after the manner of ordinary claw-bars, or in aposition where the part that carries the claw will be at an angle withthe other part or handle, whereby t-he implement may be used by a person standing on the inside of the track-that is, between the rails-whendrawing-spikes driven on both the inside and outside of the rails, thusdecreasing the liability of danger caused by a workman losing hisbalance, which is often attended with serious results when drawingspikes while standing on a bridge outside the rails.

A designates the -handle of the implement, and B the part which carriesthe claw a. In the lower end of the part A a slot or mortise is eut,into which a tongued end of the part B is inserted and pivoted. I

C isa catch or locking-bar, bolted to the back of the handle A, so thatit will have a lateral swing as to its ends. When the bar is to be usedin an extended position the lockingbar O is caused to press down upon atongued end, b, of the part B which is then parallel with the part A.The part B is shown in Fig. l as set at an angle with the part A, theend of the locking-bar O pressing it into a notch cut in the saidtongued end of the part B, so as to prevent the part B from moving fromsuch position.

We will here remark that we do not limit ourselves to the use of anyparticular lockingbar or catch for holding the part B in eitherl of thepositions mentioned.

From the above description itwill be readily seen that the spike-drawer,when in the position illustrated, can be used by a person standingbetween the rails ot' the track for drawing out the spikes on theoutside of the rails by inserting the claw under the spike in the usualway, the person moving the lever or handle outward from him, and thus hecan draw the spikes Without any liability of losing his balance. It isevident that this drawer can also be used while in an extended posiVtnesses: JOHN W. DANIEL, W. W. GARY.

